Lighting issue

[darksmaster923]

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3084 ... 000ozn.png

I think that speaks for itself. Any way to smooth out those shadows?

[QuestOfDreams]

No, you can't smooth the lighting on world geometry.

[metal_head]

Lol, I've never had such problem with my game and I've been using nem's terrain generator a lot! Pretty strange...program did you use to make the terrain?

[Jay]

If you wanted to REALLY smooth it, you would have to use polycounts which RF can't handle. You would get really sharp shadows, though, i think. Also those polycounts would a) make the level impossible to edit and b) take forever to compile.

I guess you're using a SunLight entity that does not go directly to the floor (not 90 degrees)? Generally this is a bad idea, because as you have seen, RF doesn't smooth the lighting. A thing you can try, however, is use of RadiosityLighting. Bounce count is not so important(3-10 is normally good), important is that reflectivity scale is <=0.5, or you will have red terrain. And use 'Extra Samples'.

If this doesn't work out, use a SunLight that goes directly to the floor. You can still have shadows of houses / etc on the terrain with that.

OR you use a mesh for the terrain and bake the lighting into the textures.